Articles
‘‘So Clear That One Can See the Breaks’: Colonialism, Materiality, and the Lyric in Jen Bervin’s The Desert’, in Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024)
“‘what beauty was’: Jen Bervin’s Untimely Sonnets.” English Literary History (2022).
“‘what Time has to do with him’: Queer Temporalities in Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book and ‘A Seventeenth Century Suite.’” Contemporary Literature (2021).
“Chicago’s ‘Red Rover’ and ‘Absinthe and Zygote’: Toward a Politics and Aesthetics of the Reading Series.” Midwestern Miscellany, XLIII (2015).
Reviews and Occasional Essays
“After the Poetry Wars,” Annulet (Open Folio: American Poetry and Poetics, 2008-2025).
“On Trying to Recite Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 to My Unborn Daughter,” Annulet (Spring 2023).
“‘To Dare a Future’: an Essay-Review of Thom Gunn’s Collected Letters,” Georgia Review (Spring 2023).
“Review: Julia Cimafiejeva, Motherfield,” On the Seawall (Feburary 2023)
“Review: Rachel Eisendrath, Gallery of Clouds,” The Spenser Review (Fall 2022).
“Silk Poetics: an Essay-Review of Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End,” Georgia Review (Fall 2021).
“Review: Caroline Bergvall, Alisoun Sings.” Chicago Review (Autumn 2020).
“On Place-Discipline, poems by Jose-Luis Moctezuma.” On the Seawall (Winter, 2020)
“Loudermilk, or, The Post-Program Era.” The Georgia Review (Winter, 2019)
“Elysian Weather: A Review of Joyelle McSweeney’s The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults.” Jacket2 (Autumn 2019).
“The Sphygmograph and the Apple Watch: Jena Osman’s Historical Poetics.” Denver Quarterly. 53.4 (Autumn 2019).
“‘What Kind of Music Can you Put a Hole Through’: Rachel Galvin’s Civilian Poetics.” Poetry International (Summer 2019).
“‘How can you trap the sky?’: A Review of Fred Schmalz’s Action in the Orchards.” Iowa Review Blog. (July 2019).
“My (Small Press) Writing Day,” My Small Press Writing Day, 2019.
“Writing and the Neoliberal University: A Review of Jenny Boully’s Betwixt and Between and A Committee of Inquiry’s Keywords…” The Georgia Review (Fall/Winter, 2018).
Transitory Poetics: during most of 2016, I wrote a monthly column of chapbook reviews for Entropy. I reviewed 28 chapbooks in all, including titles by Nikki Wallschlaeger, Mike Lala, Carrie Lorig, Sean D. Henry-Smith, and many others. Here are two representative columns: May 2016 and September 2016.
"A fairly precise list of the things I ate during the two days I wrote this review of Becca Jensen’s Among the Dead: Ah! and Afterward Yes!" Jacket2 (Special Feature: Toward a Wilder Review, edited by Laura Goldstein and Michelle Taransky). 2015.
Bodies in Space: during 2013-14, I wrote a column for the Spoon River Poetry Review on issues of space and embodiment in contemporary poetry. Representative posts include an interview with Jacob Bennett about his chapbook Wysihicken [sic] and a short essay on the role of the body in the poetry reading.
"Paragraphs on Lyric Poetry," Lemonhound, 2013.